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The United States carries out more airstrikes | :00:10. | :00:11. | |
We report from the frontline, as Iraqi Kurd soldiers try to halt | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
They are digging in there for what looks like a fight. As the fighting | :00:17. | :00:33. | |
continues, Britain drops its first humanitarian aid packages to the | :00:34. | :00:34. | |
tens of thousands of Also on the programme this evening, | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
Baroness Warsi, who resigned over Gaza, | :00:41. | :00:42. | |
warns the Conservatives won't win the next election unless they appeal | :00:43. | :00:44. | |
to more ethnic minority voters. The Australian couple accused | :00:45. | :00:51. | |
of abandoning a surrogate baby with people trapped in the mountains. We | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
want to bring him with us. Down's Syndrome speak publicly | :00:55. | :00:56. | |
for the first time. And Arsenal beat Manchester City, | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
to lift the Community Shield US forces have carried out further | :01:00. | :01:01. | |
airstrikes in Iraq, against militants from The Islamic | :01:02. | :01:28. | |
State, the group formerly known as ISIS, which has taken control | :01:29. | :01:30. | |
of large parts of the country. The attacks came as Britain | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
delivered its first airdrop of humanitarian aid, to people trapped | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
on a mountain in northern Iraq. US airstrikes were concentrated | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
around the Kurdish-controlled city of Irbil, where thousands of | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
Christians have taken refuge from Our World Affairs Correspondent | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
Caroline Wyatt has travelled beyond Kalak, west of Irbil, | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
where Kurdish peshmerga fighters have been digging in, to try to halt | :01:55. | :01:56. | |
the militants' advance on the city. Taking aim at the Islamic state. | :01:57. | :02:15. | |
Kurdish soldiers say they are now determined to fight back against the | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
militants who have sown terror in their wake. Kurdish bulldozers are | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
creating a defensive line to stop the extremists in their tracks, | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
something these soldiers have been unable to do over the past weeks and | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
days. These Kurdish fighters have now brought us to what is the final | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
front line. They are digging in over there for what looks like a fight, | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
because behind that rage is now controlled by the Islamic state. The | :02:42. | :02:48. | |
men here want more ammunition and support from the US. The Brigadier | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
in charge of this outpost blames the West for allowing the Islamic state | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
to gain territory so far. TRANSLATION: What are the | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
international community, the UN council therefore, if not to defend | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
peace and humanity here. Of course, we want the Americans and others to | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
be serious about air strikes to help us. But the families who had sought | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
refuge at the camp just crossed the road are taking no chances. It | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
emptied, as they fled again, many to the town of Irbil, just 40 | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
kilometres away. Already there, the Iraqi Christians. The men, women and | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
children driven out of their homes a week ago. The Sunni fighters told | :03:28. | :03:35. | |
them to convert to Islam or die. Tens of thousands of Iraqi Christian | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
families have sought sanctuary here at the Cathedral and other churches, | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
in private homes, and in derelict buildings across the city. Nobody | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
knows how long they will have to stay here, seeking sanctuary, but | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
they are beginning to realise it could be a long time. This | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
three-month-old boy and his sister are too young to understand what is | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
happening, but their parents do. Their mother breaks down, as she | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
tells me she had to leave her mother behind, and doesn't know now if she | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
is alive or dead. Her husband says the men took everything, first | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
looting their houses then destroying their churches. We need an | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
intervention now, and immediate intervention to help these people, | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
because they are sleeping outside in the streets, actually in public | :04:25. | :04:33. | |
places, so they are without nothing. And they are just a fraction of the | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
hundreds of thousands of Iraqis forced to flee their homes in what | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
people here are calling a humanitarian disaster that the West | :04:43. | :04:43. | |
is failing to stop. The Iraqi government has said | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
hundreds of members of the Yazidi community, who've taken refuge | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
in mountains in the north, had been As we've heard, | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
the international community is starting to provide aid, | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
but has also told Iraqi politicians that they needed to show unity, | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
to fight the extremist threat. From Washington, | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
David Willis reports. The latest pictures from Mount | :05:07. | :05:16. | |
Sinjar paint a truly appalling picture of human misery. Children, | :05:17. | :05:23. | |
hurt and hungry, their parents in constant fear of attack. There were | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
thought to be tens of thousands of members of the minority Yazidi | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
community stuck here, after being driven from their homes by the | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
militants. Aid supplies are starting to get through, and RAF Hercules | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
delivered water supplies overnight, and American cargo planes have been | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
doing the same. France too has pledged humanitarian support but the | :05:51. | :05:52. | |
French Foreign Minister, on a visit to Iraq, said the fate of the | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
country rests with the Iraqis themselves. TRANSLATION: It is | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
particularly important at this moment that Iraq has a broad-based | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
unity government, and all Iraqis must feel represented. Together, | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
they can lead the battle against terrorism. The rapid advance of the | :06:11. | :06:17. | |
Islamist fighters caught the White House off-guard, and there have | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
already been calls here for the president to be more aggressive. The | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
President's policy, for now at least, is one of containment, | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
limiting the advance of the Islamist militants, but his critics argue | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
that without a timetable he lacks a coherent strategy for dealing with | :06:36. | :06:42. | |
this latest threat. The US continues to mount air strikes in the north of | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
the country, and America's present in the skies above Iraq may be a | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
feature of life for quite some time to come. | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
In the last hour, Israeli and Palestinian negotiators | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
have accepted an Egyptian proposal for a new 3 day ceasefire in Gaza, | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
More than 1,900 Palestinians and 67 Israelis have been killed in the | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
Our Middle East correspondent Orla Guerin is in Gaza. | :07:08. | :07:17. | |
So, some slight glimmer of good news, if this cease-fire can indeed | :07:18. | :07:26. | |
take hold and maintain? Well, I suppose it will be seen here, Jane, | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
is another window of possibility. The cease-fire is due to begin at | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
about midnight local time, that is 10pm in the UK. It is supposed to | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
last for 72 hours. Earlier today, Palestinian factions had agreed, and | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
then Israel also accepted the Egyptian request. Israel has said if | :07:47. | :07:53. | |
the truce holds into tomorrow, it will send its negotiating team back | :07:54. | :08:00. | |
to Cairo so those stop start talks can begin again. On both sides of | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
the board of the warfare has been continuing. Four Palestinians have | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
been killed today in a series of air strikes, the death toll includes a | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
teenage boy and a woman. On the other side of the border, Israel | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
says at least two dozen Palestinian rockets have landed, and within the | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
last hour, we ourselves were very close to an F-16 Israel ES track, it | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
happened within one minute of our hotel. The target was an apparently | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
empty factory, but I can tell you the ground and all the buildings | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
around shock. So certainly the night, until this truce takes place, | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
Israel ES trikes are continuing and the conflict is still continuing. -- | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
air strikes are continuing. Baroness Warsi, who last week | :08:41. | :08:42. | |
resigned as a Conservative minister because of the Government's stance | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
on the Gaza conflict, has said the Tories won't win the | :08:46. | :08:47. | |
next election unless they do more to But one backbench Conservative has | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
said the Baroness has "embarrassed herself", | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
with what he described as a tirade. Here's our political | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
correspondent Vicky Young. Is the first Muslim woman to sit in | :08:57. | :09:08. | |
Cabinet, Lady Warsi was seen by some as a symbol as to how the | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
Conservative Party had changed and the David Cameron's leadership. For | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
years, she was a familiar face beside her leader, but just days | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
after resigning she has turned on him and lashed out at colleagues she | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
describes as bitchy. Lady Warsi has previously mocked David Cameron for | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
surrounding himself with old eat onions, and in her interview she | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
contrasted her own background as a northern working-class woman is the | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
premise to's public school advisers. She said: | :09:39. | :09:47. | |
The peer resigned last week over what she called the government's | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
morally principled policy on the conflict in Gaza, but critics say | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
she has now gone too far. I think it is more of an embarrassment to | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
herself today that she has moved from her principled resignation | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
about an issue she believe strongly in the then start criticising the | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
government in many other areas, which haven't reflected in her | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
original resignation. She also told the Sunday Times the Conservatives | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
would not win a general election outright until they started | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
attracting more of the ethnic vote. This former adviser to Boris Johnson | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
says the Tories do need to reflect modern Britain and it is a work in | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
progress. There is a need to have more representation sometimes in the | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
party, and that is what the party has been trying to do. That it is | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
why it disappointing that Baroness Warsi has left. She brought an | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
argument to the table, I am sorry to see her go, I'm sure the prime | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
ministers as well. We need to now build on the good work she has | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
done. Downing Street are refusing to be drawn on this, just repeating | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
that the prime list was disappointed Lady Warsi left government. But they | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
won't thank her of adding to the criticism often made of David | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
Cameron by Labour that he and the Tory party are remote and out of | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
touch and then to understand the lives of ordinary British voters. | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has become the country's | :11:10. | :11:11. | |
With more than half the votes counted, | :11:12. | :11:18. | |
Mr Erdogan has around 52% support - and a significant lead | :11:19. | :11:20. | |
Until now the post has been a government appointment. | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
An Australian couple accused of abandoning a surrogate baby with | :11:26. | :11:27. | |
Down's syndrome, say they did want to take the little boy home. | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
Speaking publicly for the first time, David and Wendy | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
Farnell claim the surrogate mother in Thailand refused to give them | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
The couple, who live near Perth, then returned to Australia with | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
It is yet another twist in this already confused and complicated | :11:44. | :12:00. | |
case. At the centre of it, the seven-month-old baby, born with | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
Down's syndrome to a Thai surrogates mother. The Australian couple | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
accused of abandoning him first said they had not known about their son, | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
with the surrogate claiming they left the baby because of his | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
condition. Now, Wendy and David Farnell claim they did want to take | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
him, along with his twin sister, but weren't allowed. We wanted to bring | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
him with us, but things were happening that we couldn't. The | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
surrogate mother wanted to take our girl. And we were getting scared | :12:31. | :12:39. | |
that we were going to lose her. The baby's sorry but has also changed | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
her story. She now claims she didn't allow the couple to take the boy. | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
TRANSLATION: I have never said I wanted to keep both babies. I did | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
not allow him to go back with them because I feared he would be put in | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
an institution. Now the Australian couple are being looked into, after | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
revelations about David Farnell's past convictions. I have been | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
convicted of child sex offences, I hang my head in shame for that. This | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
has now become a case of who is telling the truth. The Farnells say | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
they will fight to get their son back. His surrogate wants to keep | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
him. His future stills seems very much uncertain. | :13:24. | :13:25. | |
Heavy rain and strong winds have battered parts of Britain, as the | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
remnants of the Caribbean Hurricane Bertha sweep across the country. | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
In Hull, a small tornado brought down trees and damaged cars. | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
The storm struck the south coast of England this morning, | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
and nearly a month's worth of rain fell in parts of Wales overnight. | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
Nine Met Office Flood Warnings, and dozens of Flood Alerts, | :13:42. | :13:43. | |
Arsenal have won the traditional curtain raiser to the football | :13:44. | :13:57. | |
season, the Community Shield. They beat Manchester City 3-0 at Wembley | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
to win the season's first silverware. The Community Shield is | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
a less precious piece of metal work than some bubble's prizes, as much a | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
statement as a trophy for the reigning and FA Cup holders. Arsenal | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
seemed intent to show that they can build on that victory. Santi Cazorla | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
is two into games for the gunners, both in Wembley finals. City offered | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
curiously little. Their free kick did prompt English's football first | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
few or finishing spray but moving any other marks was proving tricky | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
without many of their stars. Their defence faded fast when Aaron Ramsey | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
ghosted through. Another goal from a cup final goal-scorer. The champions | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
found some direction at half-time but not enough to beat Wojciech | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
Szczesny in the Arsenal goal. And any hint of a revival ended when | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
Olivier Giroud took aim. A deflection helped it in, the ball | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
and the game had gone over City heads. Arsenal went nine years | :14:58. | :15:00. | |
without a trophy. They are rediscovering the feel of them. That | :15:01. | :15:08. | |
is all for now. I will be back with the late news here on BBC1 at 10pm. | :15:09. | :15:09. |